OrionVM
Company type | Privately held company[1][2] |
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Industry | Internet hosting services |
Founder | Sheng Yeo (CEO) Alex Sharp (CTO) Joseph Glanville |
Headquarters | Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, California[3] |
Products | OrionVM Wholesale Cloud Platform |
Number of employees | 50 (estimated)[4] |
Website | OrionVM.com |
OrionVM Wholesale Pty Limited (trading as OrionVM)[1][2] is an Australian
The company was founded and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia,[6][7] with offices in San Francisco, California.[3]
History
OrionVM was founded in a dorm by Sheng Yeo,[8] Alex Sharp[9] and Joseph Glanville in 2010.[10] The company's cloud platform was developed while the founders were still students at the
In 2011, the company received angel investments from Australian entrepreneur and PIPE Networks co-founder Stephen Baxter[12][13] and American Gordon Bell of DEC and Microsoft Research.[14]
For his work at OrionVM, CEO Sheng Yeo was nominated for the 2012 Australian Entrepreneur of the Year[15] and the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.[8]
In 2014, OrionVM received a State Merit award and a National Finalist nomination in the 2014 iAwards, with CTO Alex Sharp winning the Hills YIA Cloud award.[16] The company was nominated for a Stevie Award for New Product or Service of the Year in Cloud Infrastructure Software,[17] and an Australian Startup Awards nomination.[18]
In 2016, Yeo and Sharp were named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.[19]
Products
Original author(s) |
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Developer(s) | OrionVM |
Initial release | 1 April 2010 |
Written in | C, Python[20] |
Operating system | Linux for hypervisor and instances, Windows Server for instances |
Platform | Xen[21] |
Available in | English |
Type | Infrastructure as a Service |
Licence |
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Website | Official website |
OrionVM sells a wholesale cloud infrastructure platform for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments. Vendors can white-label the platform for resale, or for internal use.[23] Prominent resellers include:
Technology
OrionVM uses the
Traditional virtual private server and infrastructure as a service providers consolidate storage into a storage area network, which is limited by Ethernet network speeds and best-effort reliability. OrionVM's platform took design cues from supercomputers by placing hypervisor storage and compute on the same physical servers.[27] These are backed by a decentralised InfiniBand fabric.[28] This improves network reliability and performance, and allows for rapid rollover between physical hosts for high availability.
Features
Rebranded panel
To end users, the base of the platform consists of a web panel, where customers are able to deploy virtual machines. For resellers, the logos and theme can be modified to suit their own branding.[29]
Instances
From the panel, users can deploy preconfigured instances with their chosen
Access
Instances can be accessed out-of-band via a web-based serial console or VNC session. Access is also available via ovm_ctl, an open source command line interface available from GitHub[20] and the pip package manager.[22]
Linux machines come preconfigured with SSH, and Windows with RDP for remote access.
Templates
Instances can be provisioned from a series of predefined templates, which can be customised if required. They include:[31]
- CentOS[32]
- Debian Linux
- FreeBSD
- Slackware Linux
- long-term support releases)
- Microsoft Windows Server[33]
API
A public
See also
References
- ^ a b "Current details for ABN: 85 142 053 870". Australian Business Registry. 16 February 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ a b "ORIONVM WHOLESALE PTY LTD ACN 142 053 870". Australian Securities and Investments Commission. 15 February 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ a b "OrionVM Expands Breakthrough IaaS Platform Into US". Cloud Computing Journal. PR Newswire. 25 March 2014. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ "OrionVM Cloud Platform". SalesIntel. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ Falconer, Joel (1 April 2011). "Sydney start-up OrionVM develops world's fastest cloud storage". The Next Web. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ Rose, Gareth (5 April 2011). "Australian Startup Launch: OrionVM". ipitch. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ "Get In Touch". OrionVM. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Sheng Yeo - Future Makers 2013". Startup Smart. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Student Startups". INCUBATE. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ a b Wilson, David (7 July 2011). "Giant-killers: the boy wonders edging out Amazon". Sydney Morning Herald - My Small Business. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ Yeo, Sheng (1 April 2010). "Australian Cloud Start-up Orion VM Develops the fastest Cloud Storage Platform in the World". WhaTech. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ Hammond, Michelle (16 November 2011). "OrionVM secures funding from entrepreneur duo". Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ a b Talevski, Julia (22 April 2013). "AAPT selects OrionVM as wholesale cloud platform: First major wholesale customer for OrionVM".
- ^ Winterford, Brett (15 November 2011). "Gordon Bell invests in OrionVM". iTNews. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ "Nominees announced for 2012 Australian Entrepreneur Of The Year awards". 15 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ "Hills YIA Cloud". iAwards. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "2014 New Product Awards & Product Management Categories Stevie® Award Winners". Stevie Awards. 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "StartUp Daily Startup of the Year finalists". 23 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "30 Under 30 2016 Asia: Enterprise Tech". Forbes. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d "OrionVM". GitHub. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Guest VM Images - OrionVM PV-HVM Templates". Xen Project. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ a b "ovm-ctl - OrionVM Command Line API Bindings". PyPi. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ a b Tsidilko, Joseph (22 April 2014). "Aussie Cloud Firm OrionVM Enters U.S. Market With White-Label Partner Offering". CRN. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ Gliddon, Joshua (22 April 2013). "AAPT signs with OrionVM for public cloud". CRN Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ZDNet. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ Tsidulko, Joseph (6 June 2014). "Australian Cloud Vendor OrionVM Inks Partnership With San Francisco-Based BizCloud". CRN. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ Macpherson, Sholto (30 April 2014). "How OrionVM took on the might of Amazon Web Services". Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ Business Wire (21 January 2013). "OrionVM Enterprise Selects Mellanox InfiniBand for their Private and Public Clouds". The Motley Fool. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
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- ^ "Quick Reference Page". Michael Kubler. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
- ^ "Mirror". OrionVM. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
- ^ "The perfect world: Installing OpenVZ inside an OrionVM CentOS 5.5 Xen Instance". Rabbie.id.au. 20 November 2011. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ "Windows can now be provisioned through the @orionvm console! Ping us if you are interested. ^SY". Twitter. 5 December 2011.